CD Projekt has confirmed that 18 employees working on its upcoming Witcher spinoff, Project Sirius, are leaving the company as the game continues through development.

The studio said it has "adjusted the size of the Sirius team to reflect the project's needs at this stage of development." Four employees based in Boston and five in Warsaw have been laid off, while another nine employees have been invited to take part in internal recruitment processes for potential positions on other CD Projekt Red projects.

The cuts were first reported by Kotaku and represent another significant development in the troubled history of Project Sirius, which has been in development for several years without receiving a proper reveal.

CD Projekt first announced its involvement with the project in 2021 after acquiring The Molasses Flood, the studio behind The Flame in the Flood. At the time, CD Projekt said The Molasses Flood would continue operating as a separate studio with its own identity while working on an ambitious project based on one of CD Projekt's established properties.

That arrangement eventually changed. In 2025, CD Projekt fully absorbed The Molasses Flood into its own structure, bringing the studio more directly under the company's control while development on Project Sirius continued.

The move came after the project encountered significant problems that ultimately resulted in a reboot and an updated direction for the game. Despite being in development for years, CD Projekt has revealed very little about what Project Sirius actually is. The game does not even have an official title yet.

The latest staff changes are particularly notable because of the size of the development team. CD Projekt reported in its Q1 2026 financial report that 83 people were working on Project Sirius at the time.

With 18 employees now affected, the changes represent more than 20% of the development team. While nine of those employees may remain with CD Projekt by moving to other projects, the number of people directly affected still represents a substantial reduction for a project that has already gone through a major change in direction.

The cuts are relatively small compared to some of the much larger layoffs that have hit the games industry in recent years. However, the percentage of the Project Sirius team affected makes the situation considerably more significant than the raw number might initially suggest.

For now, CD Projekt has not indicated that the latest changes represent another major shift in the project's direction. The company has only said that the team has been adjusted to match the project's current development needs.

That leaves Project Sirius in an unusual position. Five years have passed since CD Projekt acquired The Molasses Flood, yet the studio has still not provided a clear picture of what the Witcher spinoff will ultimately become.

With the project already rebooted once and now undergoing another substantial reduction in its development team, fans may have to wait even longer before CD Projekt is ready to properly introduce its mysterious new Witcher game.